Wow what a day! I have been here now for 3 days and all ready I can feel my Spanish improving. Like I thought it would be, it is tiring to speak only Spanish, but I love it! I moved in with my host family yesterday, and I can see that this will be a great semester. One of the sons even goes to the same school that I will! The schedule for eating here in Peru is very typical of a Spanish speaking country, but so different from the U.S. Breakfast is around 8 AM, Lunch happens around 1-2 PM and Dinner starts at 8:30 PM! Breakfast in Peru is also more like a lunch. For example, today I had a smoothie, an egg, and a ham and cheese sandwich.
Today during orientation the first thing we went over was the slang of Peru (La jerga). It was interesting, but difficult to remember all of the words. It is good to know so that I can fit better into the culture, but some of them I think I am going to avoid none the less. We were supposed to get cell phones today, but the store was closed! Bummer. I think we are going to go get them tomorrow. We also talked about phones. Something that was really interesting is that it is free for us to receive calls here (even from the U.S.!). Also sending text messages is super cheap. It is only 0.1 soles or $0.04 per message. I am excited to figure out my way around the city and to get to know not only the students at PUCP, but also those in my program. Anyway, that is all for now!
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